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So no Glovo then...

I still remember Sheldon trying to extend his life and that all got a bit farty. Suppose it'll be good for steering if the thrusters crap out.

Totally unrelated but...

https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-apology-norway-government-twitter-label-nigeria-1766994?amp=1

Is there anyone at work at Am Reg today??

Remember Scrooged

The head bloke wanted targeted tv programmes and adverts for cats... Same shit, different century. The C suite is a constant... Barking.

I'm amazed Am Reg was able...

To type the word "Education" in English... Surely it's edoocaishin in 'merikan. Give us a break, it's Friday p.m. and no one touched nuffink since yesterday.

Sounds like they have just about enough ram...

To run windows 11.

Err....

Is this the same bunch whose excellence in software development made planes fall out of the sky? I'll stick with the mad bloke for the mo.

Get yer finest blockchains here...

Fresh off the back of a lorry, sweet, tender and oven ready. I'll do you a deal... 1 bitcoin each or 2 for a half. You won't get better blockchains on the market. Look at the gold one I have round my neck.. BELLLOCKCHEEAAIIINS!!

Honest Boris Enterprises.

Hoo boy...

The missive brokers are out today...

Short answer is bloke from aws says buy into our monolith of (micro) bits or stick with your monolith of not (micro) bits.

I doubt there is anyone on here (apart from the ex aws perp) who needs to think on the aws scale, so don't let some aws floggo honcho bully you into insecurity.

IT is basically a set of tech fashion trends, so be brave and trust your instincts and needs, and not what some invested suit tries to sell you.

I'll shut up now.

Woop dee doo

It all sounds wonderful except... Amazon still managed to lose my order last week.

Being boring...

I'm building the very thing (no pun) albeit on a smaller scale and have cows involved too! It's all so cool linking water, trees, cows etc with ESA and NASA datasets, LoRa, Grafana, MapBox and making the interface flexible enough to be used by blokes in fields to research scientists.

Lovin' it.

I'm Scottish...

Nothing understands me.

They had a nifty machine ..

For doing it out here in Spain. It just drove along and cut a narrow trench (7cms or so) in the tarmac at the side of the road. Blokes laid the fibre (note F I B R E) and filled trench in. Blue line painted on top. I think they were laying over 2kms a day. For other areas they just ran it in big gas supply pipes and the like. Every tiny weeny village now has full fat fibre internet.

Yeah but....

A half billion imperial, nay sovereign, pounds is worth a lot more than 0.5 billion johnny foreigner toy money any day of the week... Actual quote by Jacob Smug-Git and as "regaled" to him by his dear papa in 1843 (or whenever he was hatched).

I had some rabid brexiteer last week, trying to convince me that the huge queues (take note Am-Reg) at Dover are caused by the huge volume of goods we're exporting to the EU now we've left. I called him a twat.

OMGoat...

I wonder what archeologists will make of that when they dig it out of the sand in 5000 years time?

FFS

That is all

Mmmm..

Big hoo ha here in Spain last week about Cisco opening a chip design centre in Barcelona.

The only thing I know aboit Cisco, is that episode of the Simpsons with the Cisco router in it.... with flies buzzing around it.

Amazing what sticks in your mind.

Shocked!

I was running 32TB datasets 12 years ago with instant, user defined querying and no cloud. Good indexing was the key. The way everyone's been talking I thought everyone was up to about 1000TBs not 100TBs. I might check this out. The data warehouse I'm involved with is only about 100GBs.

Aye,

But can it lick its balls?

IMHO..

Every business/org/whatever has millions of quids of servers'n'stuff or cloudiness'n'stuff invested and at the bum end, everything is held together by CSV files...

Just been through 3 weeks of AI, CI, AWS, <any product mentioned in the article>, yada yada and under it all is many CSV files lumbering about like incontinent dinosaurs.

It's getting embarrassing.

The Twitanic...

. Anyone got any iceberg jokes?

I used to have an NSA coffee mug...

But I threw it away when I realised the ceramic was chipped...

Seriously!

Just wondering...

Do employees at Facebook spend all day tweeting and vice versa? Just interested...

As my mum would say...

I can see the earpiece, but where's the mouthpiece?

That's not all of it...

On current projections it's not only mag north on the move. True north is going to end up in France. Seemingly, and I'm not joking, this is down to India extracting too much groundwater and China building too many cities.

Last time I saw a fax..

Was on Back to the Future 2.

All telephony gives me these days is spam calls and spam messages so I use whatsapp, telegram and skype instead. For official stuff I have a digital ID and signature (EU/Spain). Still use email for the rest. From next year all billing is to be done (by law) electronically to stop tax fraud, so bits of paper being stuffed into a glorified photocopier with a phone nailed to it have long been forgotten about here.

My thought for the morning...

Why don't they just entangle some stuff together, take one half and fly it into space, make it go round and round the sun very fast until they get some good time dilation and then they can communicate back from the future and nip any upcoming problems in the present in the bud.

Need more coffee...

If one more person mentions AI...

thinking I'll buy into whatever crap they're selling I'll slap them. At least they've stopped trying to blockchain everything which was the last marketing fad that went phut.

Also "artificial intelligence" is a term that I find racist and smacks of slavery. Ask anyone in 400 years time.

But but but...

https://finbold.com/uk-prime-minister-rishi-sunaks-nft-project-still-on-track-despite-market-meltdown/

Must be worth a punt.. Shirley!

Meanwhile and on a smaller scale..

Is the LoRa AI product (no names but 'merican) that can distinguish between sparrow and parakeet calls with a 72% accuracy. I'm still in tears.

This'll makes their CVs look good

2022 - 2023 Spent 9 months looking for flying saucers. They won't even be able to get a McJob with that on their CVs.

*article paid for by Google

At least measurements are proper Reg. I chequed. :) What's happening with dates?

Tell me about it

My 2006 mitsubishi shogun had a heart attack, so whilst it was at the doctors I bought a Nissan Navara NP300. Bloody hell, the thing is just too smart for its own good. I hate it. I've got my Shogun back and the Nissan is now parked under a tree being shat on by pigeons. It's what it deserves.